Friday, October 28, 2011

Featured Online Resource for the week of Oct. 31 is culturalpolitics.net.

A multi-disciplinary metasite with links to sites and articles on theory in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The site is run by TV Reed, Professor of American Studies and English at Washington St. University.

Friday, October 21, 2011

This project is a collaboration of the Appalachian College Association Central Library.The digital library provides electronic access to the collections of the members of the Appalachian College Association.They include topics such as Daily Life and Customs, Music, and Visual Arts & Handcrafts.

As an example, under Music you can search by title and some of the listings provide the option to listen to the selection of music in mp3 format.

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggesta website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Toondoo provides you with cartoon panels, a selection of characters, settings, props, etc., and you do the rest. You can put your resulting work out there with facebook or twitter, and can of course save your cartoons as image files and go from there. You are also given an account to store or display your toons--you can either keep them private and distribute them only as you wish, or make them available openly--there is a small community on other cartoonists who may comment on your creations.

Here's one discussing the uses of subject headings in research databases

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

This project has digitized historic newspapers from 1836 – 1922.You can search for a specific newspaper by name or search for newspapers by state. The project currently has 581 newspapers they have digitized.You can click on the image of the newspaper and move around on the page as if you were reading it in print. You can also zoom in and get a better view of a particular article.The site also allows you to download the newspaper in PDF as well.

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Barry Eisler decided not to sign the half-million dollar contract offer from St. Martin's Press for his novel Detachment, but instead to publish it first as an e-book via Amazon. Here's the story from npr.org--it aired on Morning Edition today.